Darwin’s theory of natural selection requires that populations must limit their reproduction to only two offspring.

1. True
2. False

Who predicted the dire threat of starvation with overpopulation (and whose essay Darwin was reading on his voyage)?

1. Malthus
2. Wallace
3. Ussher
4. Lyell

If a population’s allele frequencies are 0.2 and 0.8, its predicted genotypic frequency of the heterozygote is __________

1. 0.64
2. 0.16
3. 0.04
4. 0.32

For the Hardy-Weinberg Principle to hold true, what should not happen in a population?

1. No natural selection
2. No mutation
3. Selective, non-random mating
4. No genetic drift

The Hardy-Weinberg Principle is a means to detect the evidence of __________.

1. evolution
2. speciation
3. mutation
4. natural selection

In terms of impacts on the phenotype, most mutations are ________.

1. deleterious
2. neutral
3. lethal
4. beneficial

Which form of selection results in the curve of variation tightening around the mean?

1. stabilizing
2. disruptive
3. directional
4. None of the above

Which of the following are examples of random genetic drift?

1. Founder effect
2. Evolutionary bottleneck
3. Both B and C
4. natural selection

The study of fossils remains or other clues to past life is called

1. Macroecology
2. Fossilology
3. Evolutionist
4. Paleontology

Which of the following is an example of analogous structures?

1. None of the above
2. The wing of a bird and the wing of a bat
3. The wing of a butterfly and the wing of a bat
4. The forearm of a human and foreleg of a dog

The biological concept of species is based on idea of

1. ecological isolation
2. reproductive isolation
3. None of the above
4. geographic isolation

Which of the following reproductive isolating mechanisms is an example of a ‘lock and key’ constraint (for example, mating organs or pollinators are incompatible)?

1. ecological barrier
2. gametic isolation
3. hybrid sterility
4. mechanical isolation

The end game of natural selection is

1. speciation
2. fitness
3. extinction
4. genetic drift

Allopatric speciation is speciation due to _______________

1. None of the above
2. The occurrence of a mutation
3. a cline
4. some form physical barrier

Sympatric speciation is the most common mode of speciation.                

1. True
2. False

Gradualism suggests that long periods of little change are interrupted by bouts of rapid change

1. True
2. False

Extinction ____________.

1. promotes evolution.
2. is only caused by humans today
3. opens up niches
4. Both B and C

Who developed the classification system still in use today?

1. Linnaeus
2. Wallace
3. Malthus
4. Darwin

Which of the following is the proper way to write a scientific name?

1. Homo Sapiens
2. homo sapiens
3. HOMO sapiens
4. Homo sapiens

Phylogenetics is a way by which we study __________

1. the evolutionary relationships of species
2. the role of mutation in evolution
3. the concept of extinction
4. the functional role of adaptation

All prokaryotes can be categorized in either Domain Bacteria or Domain Archaea.

1. True
2. False

What combination of characteristics do all animals share?

1. multicellular, eukaryotic, heterotrophic
2. multicellular, eukaryotic, autotrophic
3. unicellular, eukaryotic, heterotrophic
4. multicellular, prokaryotic, autotrophic

You are a mammal in the Phylum Chordata in the Kingdom Animalia. 

1. True
2. False

Natural selection is the central tenent of our modern view of organic evolution.  But is it not the only process that results in evolutionary change in species.  Please explain this statement, and (for full credit) correctly describe at least 4 alternative processes/events that can result in an evolutionary change in a population’s gene pool. (Hint: This is a FIVE-point question! be sure to provide sufficient detail)